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quetzalhuitolihui.

Headword: 
quetzalhuitolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to twist, writhe in the manner of quetzal plumes (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quetzalhuītōlihui
IPAspelling: 
ketsɑlwiːtoːliwi
Frances Karttunen: 

QUETZALHUĪTŌLIHU(I) to twist, writhe in the manner of quetzal plumes / se va ... retorciendo a manera de quetzal (C) [(1)Cf.76r]. See QUETZAL-LI, HUĪ-TŌLIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 209–210.